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Information | No Longer Notorious No Longer Notorious | Biographies Facts & Figures Facts & Figures ■ Homes built: 1,486 ■ Homes improved: 1,333 ■ Homes demolished: 2,275 including 32 tower blocks. ■ Two new shopping centres built, plus an enterprise park and a Castle Vale HAT Awards: ■ The HAT have been Chartermark Award holders since 1996, and Investors In People since 2000. ■ In 2000, the HAT won the Secretary of State’s Partnership in Regeneration Award. Publications and pieces of research which have featured the work of Castle Vale HAT include: ■ Regeneration that lasts – A guide to good practice on social housing estates, published by DETR February 2000. ■ National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal - Report of Policy ■ ■ Business and Society: DTI Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2002 Published by the Department of Trade and Industry, May 2002. Incentives and Beyond The transferability of the Irwell Valley Gold Service to other social landlords ODPM 2003. range of health facilities. ■ In 2000 and 2002, the HAT won Cabinet Office TNT Action Team 8: Anti-Social Behaviour March 2000. ■ Housing association rent income: Rent collection and arrears ■ Jobs created: 1,461 Modernising Government Partnership Prizes. ■ Decanting Tenants - A good Practice Guide, published by the management by housing associations in England Audit ■ Training places: 3,415 ■ In 2001, the Spitfire Sculpture won the Institution of Civil Institute of Housing / Housing Corporation May 2000. Commission May 2003. ■ Unemployment: 26% in 1993 (Birmingham 18%); 5.3% in Engineers West Midlands award. ■ Challenging images – Housing estates, stigma and regeneration, ■ Regeneration UK, DTI July 2004. 2004 (Birmingham 7.6%). ■ In 2002 the HAT won the Midlands Excellence Award for overall published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation October 2000. ■ Life expectancy: people in Castle Vale now live on average organisational excellence. ■ Transferable lessons in regeneration from the Housing Action seven years longer than they did in 1992. ■ In 2002 the HAT won the Birmingham Civic Society Forward Trusts, published by DETR December 2000. ■ Education: 5 A*-C GCSE passes: 13% in 1994, 31% in 2004 Prize, for the ‘regeneration and transformation’ of Castle Vale. ■ Neighbourhood Management: Invitation to participate in a (and 40% in 2003). ■ In 2003, Centre Park was a BALI (British Association of Pathfinder Round, published by DETR. January 2001. ■ Crime: total offences reduced by 36% since 2000. Landscape Industries) Award Winner, and at the 2004 Civic ■ Good Practice Guide: Neighbourhood Management Duncan, P Trust Awards, Centre Park was given a special mention as a and Thomas, S Chartered Institute of Housing and The Housing ‘vitally important open space which contributed significantly to Corporation 2001. the local community’. ■ Tackling Drugs to build a better Britain: United Kingdom Anti-Drugs ■ In 2003, the HAT won the West Midlands Building Excellence Co-ordinators Annual Report 2000/01 (A report on progress since Award for Regeneration. 2000 of the Government’s ten year anti-drugs strategy). ■ In 2003, ‘Regeneration and Renewal’ Magazine profiled Castle ■ Retailing, sustainability and neighbourhood regeneration Carley, Vale HAT as ‘one of the top six most admired organisations M, Kirk, K and McIntosh S, Published by The Joseph Rowntree in regeneration’ Foundation 2001. 114 115
Biographies | No Longer Notorious No Longer Notorious | Biographies Biographies Brief Biographies (as at January 2005) The brief biographies below are of the people substantially referred Alison Hadden: Director of Housing 1994-1998. Now Executive Director of Whitefriars Housing. Bernadette Nolan: Housing Officer 1994-1998; Now Performance Manager. Pat Smith: Health Visitor 1969-1988, based at the Health Centre (now demolished and rebuilt); now retired. to in the text. Far more people than these were responsible for the Paul Hill: Paul has lived in Castle Vale for 30 years. His first solo Councillor Mike Olley: A local City Councillor since 1991. HAT Board Sue Spicer: Lived in Cranwell Tower and was a member of the Community transformation of Castle Vale, but space does not permit the listing exhibition was at Birmingham’s Bond Gallery in 1994. In 2004 member 1999-2005. Action Team. Was Chair of Castle Vale Community Housing Association of everyone. From the sample brief biographies below, however, you Paul’s paintings were a significant part of the ‘Life on the Vale’ Pat Niner: Board Member of Castle Vale HAT 1993-2003; now Vice for two years, is now Chair of CVCHA Operations Committee and can see the considerable variety of skills and experience that were exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Chair of the Board of Castle Vale Community Housing Association resident Vice Chair of Castle Vale Neighbourhood Partnership Board. required to achieve this result. Steve Holloway: Head Teacher, Chivenor School since 1991. and Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Urban & Regional Studies, John Stevens has been Director of Birmingham Co-Operative Angus Kennedy OBE: Chief Executive of Castle Vale Housing Action University of Birmingham. Housing Services since 1995. Patrick Allen: Acting Chief Executive 1992-1993; Now Head of Trust 1993-2005; now Chairman of Urban Living (Birmingham and Janet Putman: Head Teacher, Castle Vale School (and Specialist Richard Temple Cox, CBE: Chairman of Castle Vale Housing Action Business Management Team, Neighbourhood Renewal Unit. Sandwell Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder), Visiting Professor of Performing Arts College) 1993-2004, now Education Consultant. Trust 1993-2005. Now Chairman of Birmingham & Solihull LIFT. Ian Bingham: was living in Lyneham Tower (now demolished) and Regeneration at the University of Central England, and Chief Executive Carole Rafferty, MBE: Chair of the Community Action Team 1992- John Thompson: Partner of Hunt Thompson Associates 1969- Member of Centre Eight Liaison Group and Castle Vale Tenants and of Community Regeneration Partnership Ltd. 1994. Now Chair of the Tenants and Residents Alliance and Castle 1984; now Chairman of John Thompson and Partners, and Chair of Residents Alliance. HAT Board Member 1999-2002; now Resident Jez Lilley: Voluntary Project Leader, Castle Vale Nature Centre Vale Community Environmental Trust. HAT Resident Board member RIBA Urbanism and Planning Group. Involvement and Marketing Co-ordinator, Castle Vale Community 1992-1994; Now Part Time Youth Worker for Birmingham City 1994-2005. Derek Waddington OBE, JP: Director of Housing for Birmingham City Housing Association. Council,and Angling Coach for British Waterways. Tess Randles: PR Manager 1995-2005; now PR and Communications Council 1984-1994. Now Chairman of Waterloo Housing Association. Councillor Marje Bridle: Chair of Birmingham’s Housing Committee Beatrice Lunn: Unemployed in 1994, living in Concorde Tower, and a Manager for Urban Living (Birmingham Sandwell Pathfinder). Dave Wallbank: Police Constable 1983-1985. Now Inspector, Castle 1994–1998; HAT Board Member 2002-2005. member of Concorde Tower Residents Association; now Housing Officer Peter Richmond: Area Housing Manager at Sanctuary Housing Vale, West Midlands Police. Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: MP for Erdington Constituency 1983- (Elderly Services) for Castle Vale Community Housing Association. Association 1996-1998. Now Chief Executive of Castle Vale Community Wendy Walsh: In 1994/95, a single mum living on income support in the 2001, now Chair of Castle Vale Neighbourhood Partnership Board. Bev McQuoid: Owner Occupier member of the Community Action Housing Association. Locking Croft maisonettes (now demolished). Now Chair of Castle Vale Steve Daniels: Construction Manager, Bullock Construction 1987- Team 1992-1995; now Trustee, Castle Vale Endowment Trust Fund. Pat Riley: Senior Development Manager 1998, Now Director of Community Housing Association, and HAT Community Development Officer. 1997; now Director of Midlands Region, Bullock Construction. Richard Mytton: Sergeant, West Midlands Police 1966-1995. Development. Carole Wildman: Planning and Policy Manager 1994, Director of Sharon Gilligan: Neighbourhood Housing Manager, BCC 1993- Now: Community Safety Co-ordinator, Castle Vale Community Dr Paul Sadler: 1967-1995 GP at Tangmere Health Centre (now Housing 1998-2004; now Director of Regeneration and Development, 1994; Now Housing Manager. Housing Association. demolished); now retired. Walsall Housing Group. 116 117
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